Quotes About Essence

The answers we seek are not out there. They are found when we bring our attention inward. Our higher self is already within us. We were born with it. It is who we truly are. It is our essence. We just need to wake up. The question is not, what do we need to do in order to achieve enlightenment. The question is, what do we need to let go of in order for enlightenment to flow.

The only thing that is necessary is to be. Everything else will flow

Spirituality does not come from religion. It comes from our soul.

Life is very simple. It's just either dead meat or moving meat.

La necesidad constante de ser algo diferente es lo más valioso que tenemos... ésa es la esencia de la pasión. Sin ella, sin pedido al cielo, comenzamos a envejecer, a repetir, a no arriesgar... a morir lentamente.

The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide with the destruction of humanity; wherever it has ruled, it has begun to destroy the essence of man.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows it not, and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead. We all had this priceless talent when we were young. But as time goes by, many of us lose it. The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. It is the essence of his being.

Instead, it is the reality that the God-forsaken one experienced in an eminent way because no one can even approximately experience the abandonment by God as horribly as the Son, who shares the same essence with the Father for all eternity.

The beautiful is the radiance which something gives off simply because it is something, because it exists.

Maximus, along with the tradition reaching from Philo to Gregory of Nyssa, says we can only know God's existence—know that he is14—not his essence, or what he is.

this, too, is a way of reaching out for the divine peace in the universe, a peace that so preserves each thing that it never deviates from being itself . . . and continues to perform its own operation.

the connection between being and person that is expressed in the word hypostasis.

Con seguridad, la esencia de una gran obra de arte no ha consistido nunca en procurarle a la «naturaleza» una reproducción plena y fiel, un retrato.

To say more is to say less.

Delete the adjectives and [you'll] have the facts.

Giving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body, a miracle of wisdom.

Wie jeder Mensch hat auch ein Buchstabe eine Seele und einen Körper. Seine Seele ist das, was er sagt, und sein Körper ist das, woraus er gemacht ist: aus Tinte oder aus Stein.

Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?

life is not about what u look like but what u r on the inside.

The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.